Articles like the above suggest the rich aren't really aware enough or trying hard enough to avoid a dystopian nightmare future. Their luxuries require a functioning world. Locking themselves away in a bunker like a self imposed prison after they make sure everything goes to hell appears to be their current idiotic plan.
Looking at politics around the world it seems like the world is slowly demonstrating that we learned nothing from the history of the 1930s.
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Plus, they give people plenty of distractions to shout at instead of improve their situation. Human nature takes over from there.
It may be "stupidity" rather than malice driving this. What I'm saying is they need to up their game out of enlightened self interest, even if they don't care one bit about the people.
If the de facto pie shrinks due to global mismanagement of resources, the richest of the rich have the most to lose.
The rich and powerful get their wealth from the masses and significantly impact the lives of the masses. World leaders need the people more than the people need them. An individual with a hard scrabble subsistence existence is similarly well off whether they have a hut and must hunt for food or live in a trailer and have some shit job. But wealth at the top has increased tremendously as world population has increased.
Bezos is not exempt from people getting tired of his crap and he would be wise to listen up and do something more effective.